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Thursday, 16 February 2012

Pooter Cockell Calls The Dame About Mr Downes

The Dame has so many important 'personages' calling for advice.....
Just now the Dame's hot line from Pooter Cockell's Town Hall penthouse suite trilled.
"Dame, I am absolutely furious. I have just seen a letter in the Standard today. Your supporter, J. Downes, accuses my Council of forcing NSL to issue a minimum of 309,000 tickets, 15,000 clamping and 9,000 towings. He says it has stopped shoppers driving into the Rotten Borough and shops were closing down. Then he said I was making £130,000 a year from being Leader and chairman of LGA-that's not true: it's only £122,000. To cap it all he accused me of not making the LGA do anything to persuade government to reduce business rates: I am going to write an angry letter, but what shall I say"?
The Dame was pensive before coming out with this advice. " Pooter, firstly, put this Downes fellow in his place. Say he got your allowance wrong and you just scrape by on £2,400 a week or £123,000 a year. That will get you a sympathy vote"
Then say that it was Cllr 'Boyo' Moylan who organised the NSL contract.
Finally, say that it's not the role of the LGA to embarrass Dave when you are waiting to be made Lord Pooter Cockell"
" Dame, you are such a genius...thank you, but just one thing. My lad, Rock gave a bash for local business; should I mention it? " "Of course not, Pooter, replied a weary Dame, it cost taxpayers thousand of pounds and was an utter waste of money". "Very well, Dame, I will get on with my letter writing".

Mirrored by the other K&C freeloader, MP Sir Malcom Rifkind. He still has not taken a Master Class from Greg Hands. MP for Fulham, on what a representative is supposed to do to return the trust put in him by residents and voters

Cllr Paget-Brown, Deputy Leader of K&C, has confided to friends that he is deeply disturbed by recent press coverage of Borough affairs and the extent to which Town Hall initiatives have become out of step with the times and current political climate.

Spending on capital projects is a particular concern, especially those that have high profile visibility.

Cllr Paget-Brown has said that he wants these projects to have less focus in council deliberations and where possible, expenditure needs to be curtailed. As an example, he is working towards a complete stop of the £6 million pavement renewal programme which is what K&C tax payers are funding every year

I am sorry I have to disagree with 20:17, Cockell is not stupid he is ripping us off for thousands, we are the ones who are not very bright. The only way to get rid of Cockell and the likes is to make it so hot for them that they become a liability.

Cllr Cockell may rant to the Dame about Mr Downes, but the Dame knows very well that Mr Downes is one of the few who has made time in a busy life to lead a campaign against the corruption and self interest in Kensington Town Hall. Cllr Cockell's dictatorship exemplifies the worst of local Government politics

It reminds me of the last days of the French Royalty. The ‘Leading Councillors’ drink Krug and eat foie gras at the opening of the expensive folly of Exhibition Road, where Westminster does not even pay its fair share of this misconceived project. When someone is injured as a result of all this foolishness, these same people just say, well his head injuries were not all that serious. What does Boris do? He just goes along with it, you scratch my back...............

Council Officer makes a number of important points, including how Westminster shortchanged the Exhibition Rd project.

Three quarters of Exhibition Rd lies in Westminster. One quarter of the road lies in K&C. K&C cuncil taxpayers contributed £8 million towards the £29 million project. Westminster council tax payers only put in £1 million. The balance came from Transport for London (Cllr Moylan's fiefdom) which is also funded by London council tax payers.

A perfect example of "working the system" by determined insiders like Moylan and Cockell. The Borgias would have been impressed.

Before we get carried away in our praise of Cllr Nick Paget Brown, we should perhaps reflect that the RBKC Parking contract and the cost of cleaning Exhibitionist Road are his responsibilities. Perhaps his unexpected leap to the defence of residents' pockets is a smokescreen for his connections with other less appealing stories.

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